| Could maggots fed on Kenyas food waste replace wild-caught fish feed? | |
| By Jackson Ambole Okata |
Source: dialogue |
7/4/2024 |
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Credit: Africapics / Alamy |
A group of young Kenyans has pinpointed an unusual solution to the problems of food waste and fish feed produced unsustainably from wild-caught fish stocks: maggots.
The larvae of the black soldier fly are devouring unwanted food in projects around the world. Their excrement, known as frass, can be used as a fertiliser for land-based crops, and their protein-rich bodies, harvested before they turn into flies, can be fed to livestock. |
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In Kenya, the environmentalists behind Project Mila, which in Swahili means tradition, are employing the larvae to clean up food waste, as well as nurture mangroves and feed fish in coastal farms. |
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